A twenty-something student teacher college graduate; Education; Theatre Arts; Social Studies; Grades 7-12; Trying to find a school to hire me!
There is some dialogue about the school district that became a battleground of sorts. I could only imagine how I would feel as a teacher put in the situation of possibly losing my job if I mentioned homosexuality in my classroom. I literally don’t know what I would do (especially because it is a lot harder to come across a job in my content area). And that is a scary thought as someone who was an active member of my high school’s GSA, participated in the Day of Silence whenever possible, and encouraged my student teaching students to stop using the word “gay” as a synonym for dumb or stupid. Ugh…the fact that this situation continued for so long makes me sick.
